Inspired by a local newspaper, popular Malaysian blogger poses the question and helps you find the answer.
I did the quiz and am apparently 49% Malaysian. Which is not too far off I suppose, given my mum's Malaysian but my dad isn't!
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no jumping, shouting or throwing of members or fellow artists; no unnecessary baring of skin, which a and clothes should not have obscene or drug-related images or messages.
They should have fined them for having crap songs as well.
But in seriousness, whilst some of us might chuckle at the apparent prudishness of Malaysian authorities, I wonder whether we in Australia have gone too far in the other direction - has anyone seen lately the Saturday morning soft porn that masquerades as a music video show?
You don't need doctors to tell you that all that sex .
Anyway, here are some of those that got the Dolls in trouble. Decide for yourself.
Police said Dr Mahathir was hit accidentally by the pepper spray, which had been aimed at the leader of the rival group.
Aha, Malaysian politics hasn't been this spicy since the trial and that infamous .
Adding to the mirth of the whole incident is the fact that the alleged pepper sprayer has now been for .
Ouch. That's two people crying in pain. Or maybe three - likely Anwar's shed a few tears too.
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only tears of laughter.
The Prophet Muhammad cartoons furore claims a Malaysian victim - East Malaysian newspaper, the .
Eh, who needs newspapers anyway.
If in doubt, ban it!
It's a sure sign of an immature government, that if the emergence of a new idea, technology, book, work of art or whatever creates difference of opinion and raises potentially touchy issues, it's better to just ban the thing than risk any kind of informed, public debate!!
So notices that China has banned the Hollywood film Memoirs of a Geisha, not because it's a bad film, but apparently because it may provoke anti-Japanese sentiments amongst the viewing populace.
Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li (pictured below) in kimonos?
Banned!
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In Malaysia, reports that that nation's rulers have seen fit to outlaw black metal music. You know, that sub-genre of heavy metal where there songs played backwards usually exhort you to eat your dog and where bands have feel-good names like Eviscerated Corpse or Late Term Abortion (I made those up by the way).
From Malaysia, a :
phone.Exactly.
The senator, Kamaruddin Ambok, 52, was fined 550 ringgit (147 dollars) wife Mahani Hussain by phone in October 2001, instead of declaring his When you marry someone, you go through all the ... processes, said the sharia judge, Zainor Rashid Hassin, referring to ethnic Malay Now, why can't you divorce someone properly as well, he was quoted as saying in the Star daily.
A man has been killed by a bomb at a shopping mall on pretty, historic . The poor fellow died from blood loss after shrapnel opened up his jugular vein. :
bomb was detonated with a delayed fuse.They are adamant that the bomb had nothing to do with terrorism. A kid's prank gone wrong?Someone lit the fuse and fled the scene a few seconds before the explosion on Sunday night.
Either way, loud explosions killing and scaring people are the last things we need in Malaysia.
Chinese woman.
The clip, apparently filmed on a mobile phone, watched by a woman in uniform.
Not an isolated incident of Chinese being harrassed it seems, as many visiting Chinese tourists have been shaken down or harrassed by local police.
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi seems genuinely shocked and is in .
Seeing as the police officer in the video clip appears to be a Malay and the victim is a Chinese women, it will be interesting to see what reaction, if any, there will be from the Malaysian Chinese community.
Those familiar with Malaysia will of course know that the Chinese and Malay communities have never been the best of friends.
Malaysian uber-blogger Jeff Ooi has .
So is what goes for news in the small Islamic sultanate of Brunei?
At 2.25 am on Sunday, following tips from the public, several religious enforcers investigated a khalwat (close proximity) case in a house at Kg Danau, Mukim Telisai, Tutong.Spying through a window? Probably with one hand in their pants as well.
A woman in her 30's and a man in his late 20's were said to have sexual intimacy outside marriage, it was learned.
The enforcers, spying through a window, found the couple in bed.
Unbelievable.
But perhaps I shouldn't be too surprised, given this kind of thing .
Fine, humiliate and punish people for being sexually intimate outside marriage as you think Sharia demands.
But then, the question I want answered is - so how come philandering Prince Jefri Bolkiah is still wandering around unpunished?
One rule for some, another rule for others. Which from the Prophet allows that?
| notes that the Malaysian Government has tried to dissuade Malaysian students studying in the US from attending a lecture to be given by former political darling, :
warning to Malaysian students who plan to attend the public lecture.Feeble and pathetic.
association at Michigan University, a copy of which was emailed to me by a Screenshots reader. Be there and be damned, the message seems to imply, and the students are encouraged to spy on each other.
Fortunately, it appears that most of the overseas Malaysian students ignored their Government's advice .
What a coincidence.
Recently, I mentioned that in understanding how laws originally meant to protect become laws that oppress.
released today, Human Rights Watch called for the repeal of the 45-year-old ISA, which allows for detention without trial and bars judicial review of detentions. The report, , is based on interviews with family members of current ISA detainees, their lawyers and handwritten statements of ISA detainees.
It documents the physical abuse, ill-treatment and humiliation of more than 25 detainees in Kamunting Detention Center in December 2004. None of these detainees have been charged or tried.
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Since 1960, the law has been misused by the ruling United Malay National Organization (UMNO) to silence critics, resulting in the detention of more than 10,000 people.
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